33. Dan 1:18-20 "None were equal" & "10 Times Better" Part 3

Time:  605 BC
Place:  King's Court
Scripture:  Daniel 1:18-20

Daniel 1:18-20

At the end of the time set by the king to bring them into his service, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar.  The king talked with them, and he found none equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; so they entered the king’s service.  In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom.

I cannot help but think of Daniel & his 3 friends as 'faithful remnants' all the way from Josiah's revival. 

While Josiah's spiritual revival of the recovery of the Book of the law made absolutely no impact on his sons and grandson  (Jehohaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin,  Zedekiah - the last 4 kings of Judah and they were bad kings), it made a 'lasting spiritual impact' on Daniel and his 3 friends.  

Think about this!  In every generation, God raises up a faithful remnant to carry on His mission.


How true this is! Many people go to church. Many Christians are religious. Many give up their faith along the way.  Many end up going back to he world.   Who is willing to remain true to the end?

Today, may God find in our church a Daniel,  a Hananiah,  a Mishael, and an Azariah.  

Ah my beloved, let us look up and pray for God to raise up this kind of faithful remnant in these last days for His glory and purpose.

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7. Yahweh's People Renew their Covenant with God

Time:  622 BC - 605 BC
Place:  Jerusalem
Event:  Cleansing of the Temple & Covenant Renewal

Little Daniel witnessed the reformation of King Josiah and the cleansing of the Temple.

Once again the people of God gathered together at the Temple & had the Book of the Law read to them.  

How privilege it is to be in covenant with God, to be Yahweh's people again, worshipping the one True God, Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 34:29-31

Then the king Josiah called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. He went up to the temple of Yahweh  with the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the Levites—all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of Yahweh .  The king stood by his pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of Yahweh—to follow Yahweh and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, and to obey the words of the covenant written in this book.

**This video is an excerpt from our Music Drama in Easter Camp 2014**


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